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They left out my favorite part of Dune, which is when the four year old tells the emperor he's a little bitch and the reverend mother her vibes are abhorrent.

#dune part two #dune movie #alia atreides #paul atreides

tomlinfonda

Inside me there are two wolves.

One who thinks that the writers are either stupid or cruel, and that the finale was so incomprehensibly bad that I shouldn't try to make sense of it. And that I should move on.

The other one is a subtext-and-metaphor-hungry beast that is manically obsessed with finding a reason, at least subtextually, for the incomprehensible mess they made out of these characters, especially Ted, in the finale.

Everyone is so right to point out that Ted in previous episodes would not have acted like this. I think the reason for the sudden regression in his character is Dottie.

That morning, full of smiles, in a good mood, Ted starts his walk to work.

He cheerfully strolls through the streets, saying hello to his neighbors, making chit-chat with them. He is (as Trent said it in 1x03) out there in the community. He is, more importantly, part of a community. Until suddenly-

"Mom?"

Dottie's arrival changes everything. Ted gets worse and worse throughout the episode. In the hotel room in Manchester, the football anthem "Blue Moon", with the haunting lyric "You saw me standing alone" plays over Ted's lonesome figure, in the shadows, depressed.

Juxtapose that with his first scene: the lively neighborhood and daylight.

At the end of the episode, his conversation with his (manipulative) mom hits him deep. He feels immense guilt over not being there for Henry. And he's been torn over this for the entire season.

His mom, and the way she acts, and the way she manipulates him, push him in the wrong direction: Kansas.

I think Ted has disassociated for most of the finale. But I also think that he is intentionally pushing people away. Maybe he thinks that this will make it easier for him to leave, maybe he thinks that this will make it easier for them to let him go. Maybe he just hates himself so much that he cannot accept their help. Maybe he feels guilty that they're showing him so much love, when he knows he will abandon them.

Either way, he quits. Something that he would not have done, even in season 1. So his regression goes farther than the first episode, deeper into his past. He goes from:

to having doubts on the plane about leaving without winning the whole fucking thing

but leaving anyway.

And this is one of the most curious things to me. Rebecca offers to bring Henry to him in England by helping relocate Michelle:

And yet, he refuses. So, sure, this is about being there for his son. But given the choice between his son with his beloved community, and his son without his beloved community, he chooses the latter.

I've heard the argument that we don't know for sure that Ted doesn't have a support system in Kansas. But from a narrative perspective, it's important that we haven't been shown that hypothetical support system at all. And given that he actually returns to Kansas without the one person who we know supported him before coming to England, it comes across as a terribly isolating situation.

So why would Ted choose to part from his found family, even though bringing his son into that family would be an option? My theory is that he just really fucking hates himself. I think he wants to punish himself, maybe for being away from Henry for so long, maybe for something else. I don't think he believes that he deserves love or even credit for how he helped the club.

I mean, Rebecca and Trent offer him exactly that this episode: credit for what the did for the club.

And he rejects them both, choosing instead to remove himself from their lives, to erase himself from the narrative.

I think he's lower mentally than we've seen him for a while.

I think he's in his dark forest.

So the plane departs and then lands. And Ted is back in Kansas, driven through the prosaic, picket-fenced, isolating, depressing American suburbs to the house where Henry and the ex-wife who doesn't love him are waiting for him.

And the light might be golden, and he might be reunited with his son. But as we close in on the last shot of the show, you can see his smile try to fight the sadness in his eyes and you know.

He's not happy.

#ted lasso #ted lasso spoilers

hmslusitania

Ted Lasso is a portal fantasy

I know, I know it's not in any way a speculative fiction show. I know. Bear with me for a second. Ted Lasso is a portal fantasy, but the real question is whether this is the story we know from the Wizard of Oz, or Mary Poppins. Ted himself is at once Dorothy and Mary, and I think my reaction to the end of Ted's story, specifically, depends on whether you take the show at it’s title, that it’s about Ted Lasso (Dorothy) or take the show at Ted’s word that it was never about him (Mary Poppins).

To Ted, he is very literally Dorothy.

He’s away from Kansas, he’s surrounded by the reminder that “there’s no place like home”, and he spent the finale wearing honest to god ruby red sneakers. The evil wizard stalked down from his curtained owners box and was removed from power. The lion got her courage, the tin man for his heart, and the scarecrow got his brain, and Dorothy went back to Kansas (leaving Toto behind). But unlike Dorothy, we didn't really get the build up that Ted had to go back to Kansas to get what he wanted -- Henry back in his life. Rebecca even offered him the choice to stay, and the means to bring Henry and even Michelle back to London with him. Exactly zero compelling reason was offered to explain why Ted wouldn't take that offer. But he's Dorothy, in a portal fantasy, and that's what Dorothy does -- she goes home. It is the ending of the vast majority of portal fantasies, no matter how much it will fuck up the protagonist (there's a whole series detailing that damage and undoing it by tumblr's own Seanan McGuire which I highly recommend btw). To me, this is an unsatisfying ending for Ted himself, since no reason was given for him to turn down Rebecca's offer.

However.

To the Richmond family, Ted is Mary Poppins.

One of the complaints I’ve seen about this season is that we don’t know where Ted is, emotionally. Much like Mary Poppins, whose internality as a character is, at best, an afterthought. Mary Poppins is not the point of Mary Poppins. The children she helps are the point of Mary Poppins, and when she leaves at the end, although you’re sad to see her go, you know the kids she left there have grown as people and will continue to grow by her example and her benevolent Julie Andrews ways. And by and large, you don’t really worry about the place Mary Poppins goes to. She’s Mary Poppins and she’ll do what she does and ours is not to question etc. ("Mary Poppins isn't a portal fantasy" yeah, I know, technically, but it's kind of an inside out portal fantasy since there's a character who came from another kind of realm, who swept in to be the answer to some problem, and then went home {or, wherever}; it's just we're seeing it from the pov of the locals rather than the person from the other realm.)

The Richmond Team have all grown as people under Ted's stewardship. As we’ve seen in the character progressions particularly of Roy, of Nate, of Rebecca, they will continue in the Richmond way that they’ve developed. Forever changed by Ted sailing in on his parasol, missing him certainly, but able to continue. More narrative weight is given to the Mary Poppins side of the story, and in this scenario, I take much, much less issue with Ted's the character's ending.

In conclusion, Ted Lasso is the story of Mary Poppins staring Dorothy Gale in the titular role.

#ted lasso #ted lasso spoilers #mary poppins #dorothy gale

tiktaalic

I feel so bad for jamietartt. what if you were made in the lab that creates bisexual people who get mad bitches and then while on the way to sucking and fucking island you fell off the transport truck and got taken in by Ted Lasso’s Feel Good Lesson Teaching Institute where they don’t even let you check grindr ONCE. it makes me sick. Ted lasso taught me that the real villain is Ted lasso for keeping a smooth talking limp wrist twunk like jamietartt single when he was born to cruise literally designed to slut it up

#ted lasso #ted lasso spoilers #jamie tartt #evergreen

javierbardem

if you go, i go.

#ted lasso #tedlassoedit #rebecca welton #ted lasso spoilers #fixed it

rylandsgrace

Ted Lasso 3.12 + text posts (so long, farewell i guess)

#tedlassogif #ted lasso spoilers #ted lasso

lasshoe

everything in life really is a circle huh like how ted started the show fake happy in kansas and finished the show fake happy in kansas and how i started the show more depressed than i’ve ever been and finished the show more depressed than i’ve ever been

#ted lasso spoilers

izzy-hands

#prick (derogatory) to prick (affectionate) pipeline

#ted lasso #roy kent #jamie tartt

hgedits

I can't believe I'm meeting the woman who created one of the nicest humans I've ever met.

#ted lasso

livelovecaliforniadreams

#ted lasso #hannah waddingham #jason sudeikis

devotioncrater

the passive aggressive comments from ted's mom.....contrasted by how emotionally available jamie's mom is......like yeah. Yeah. sometimes a relationship with your mother may have people outside believing it's sunshine & sunflowers when really it's all superficial. and sometimes she will do nice things like leave notes in your lunches or bake your favorite bread, but when push comes to shove she isn't really There for you in the way you need. you can't cuddle with her on the couch and cry your eyes out and hear supportive words. she won't watch your football match even if you invite her. she'll leave before you wake up so she doesn't have to say goodbye. it's all this yearning for connection, but on her dime. she controls when to let you in or when she hangs you out to dry and you never get a say. you can't verbalize your needs or wants because you weren't allowed to or just plain never learnt the tools to.

it's not because she doesn't love you — it feels even unfair saying that, she clearly loves you — but because people can only connect with others as deeply as they connect with themselves. so when you better yourself, grow, try to unlearn the same toxic behaviors she imparted on you, she'll hit you with the insecure guilt trip of "ooh let me guess, it's all my fault" and you'll think fuck you

#ted lasso spoilers #ted lasso #dottie lasso

stina-ballerina

Roy went to hug Jamie's mom as revenge for Jamie calling his sister fit the week before and you cannot convince me otherwise.

#ted lasso #ted lasso spoilers #roy kent #jamie tartt

dragonsareawesome123

"I didn't know what to do, Ted. So, I pretended I was okay." "Okay. Well, thank you for the apology. And fuck you for making me think I had to pretend too."

Ted Lasso (2020-), 3x11 - “Mom City”